CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONFROM FAMILY:
Education is the most important factor in lives of all animals including humans. But animals excluding humans need almost negligible education because they mostly act, throughout their lives, based on their intuition rather than making any calculated moves.
As against this we humans mostly make calculated moves all through in our lives for everything, sex included.
Because of this the human child has got to be educated right from the instant of birth, the very first education being learning to be in hands of people other than mother. Subsequently, the child must learn to suckle from rubber nipple fixed on glass/ plastic milk bottle.
It is only the human young one who has to switchover to milk from another animal at very young age and must know it’s father, siblings, cousins, grandparents and various aunts and uncles.
Customarily, our children must start getting used to schooling generally by age 2–6 to 3–10 although their education, in real terms, starts right from birth (aren’t young ones of non-human animals better off although they don’t enjoy travelling by flights and going to space).
Limiting ourselves to ourselves, i.e., human animals, the importance of education is the topmost in life. Out of all education meant for human child it is the early education that starts, indirectly first and directly a little after, is most important for it lays the foundation for rest all of the education which follows during lifetime (yes, education continues even for a person of 100 years of age unless brain has gone vegetative).
With the above foreground, I elaborate, in the following, that which is mostly missing in education that should come from parents, since it cannot come otherwise. This part of education can be termed, “CULTURE”. There is family culture, culture of the community, culture of city, culture of state and finally culture of country. Unfortunately, there may be some country where there can be no culture. Absence of all cultures is akin to total freedom.
This education of culture commonly came at home from mother, then father and finally from grandparents until industrial revolution. Post industrial revolution gradually families started disintegrating and exposure of children to education from family gradually reduced to near nothing and expanded into freedom.
Freedom is not bad. But just as freedom to jump from an airplane come only to a paratrooper all sorts of freedoms in life call for prequalification.
I would like to limit, what I wanted to express, to the above rather than trying to prescribe a certain boundary of education from family.
The purpose of my having thought as above is that within a finite time as computing power gets a quantum leap, with quantum computing becoming order of the day, computers would be able to almost mimic us humans totally as AI advances. Some (or may be many) people may be happy about it, but I am not. Us humans must possess something that cannot be mimicked. I feel that “culture” is the only attribute that cannot be mimicked because it would be totally individual — provided there is culture.
